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...Trenton, muscular Governor Harold Giles Hoffman, who had sworn to resist the Sit-Down with "the full resources of the State," leaped to the rescue of Thermoid's involuntary sitters, had State troopers convoy a truckload of food and bedding to them. When the sheriff declared himself unable to enforce a court decree ordering the strikers to stop interfering with the company's operations, Governor Hoffman dispatched 30 blue-clad State troopers to stand guard...
Akron rubber workers began staging sit-downs in 1934, when John L. Lewis was only the hard-boiled boss of the hard-boiled Miners' Union. Akron was then known as the toughest anti-union town in the U. S. outside of Detroit. United Rubber Workers of America, later to join C. I. O., moved in in 1935. By the time this year's Sit-Down epidemic struck, both Akron's workers and Akron's businessmen were past the primary grades, thoroughly accustomed to the idea and practice of unionism. When Firestone Tire & Rubber...
...Longmont, Colo., planted in a rocker on her father-in-law's front lawn, Mrs. Genevieve Johnson, 26, went into the second week of her Sit-Down to force her estranged husband to pay the $6.70-per-week separate maintenance awarded her by a court...
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...Hinenburg, a young man who had become director of the hospital only six months prior, had dismissed her because she was trying to unionize the employes, Mrs. Rhatigan began an organization campaign which culminated in March when 200 cooks, dishwashers, laundresses, electricians, slop women and orderlies put on a sit-down strike in the hospital's kitchens, pantries and ice plant. Babies cried because their wet diapers were not changed. Doctors and nurses were obliged to go to public restaurants for their meals. After eight hours, police broke up the strike by throwing the help in jail following...